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A public row has broken out between a ministerial ally of Justine Greening and Theresa May’s former chief of staff after the former education secretary was accused of blocking plans to reform tuition fees.

Nick Timothy said Ms Greening, who quit the Government after refusing a proposed move to become work and pensions secretary, opposed plans for a review to cut fees, forcing the reforms into the long grass.

Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Timothy also claimed Ms Greening was “unpopular with officials, she frustrated reformers, and she exasperated the Prime Minister”.

But Jo Johnson, who left his role as universities minister to take a job at the Department for Transport as part of Mrs May’s reshuffle,...